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It is amazing how my husband and I who lived so far away when we were kids would share a similar canteen food. When I was in kindergarten, one regular dessert was boiled mung bean with sugar. And his regular lunch was boiled with little salt and refried in coconut oil with shallot.

Mung bean is our stable food. It always has a space in our pantry. We use it in both sweet and savory dishes. We also use it for homemade bean sprout.

Mung beans are good source of protein. It is also high in fiber, benefits for the immune system, and the metabolism system.

Mung beans is know for reduce cholesterol in blood, so when we were kids, we were forced to boiled mung beans with little bit of sugar for our parents and grandparents.

I do cook moong beans but I sprout them first and make a light salad/cum stir fry out of them, you can see the post at my blog..boiled moong beans with sugar is something new to me sounds very healthy..must try this version!

We use mung beans a bit in our household as well, mostly in the mung dal side dish, or sprouted in salad. But I always forget to soak them so usually we just go with lentils instead 🙂
I never knew they could be used in deserts as well! I will definitely try that out sometime.